2010: A Year in Review (Pt II)

2010 offered a little something for everyone.  There were elections in the US, implied succession in the DPRK and in between all that, we even found time to play a little baseball.  2010 was also special because the Krause-Lung powerhouse accomplished a feat that had not even been attempted in many years.  That's right, we got to hang out on two separate occasions!

In the world of RSBS, we provided the hard-hitting analysis and cheap shots you've come to expect.  Cheap shots.  You know, like not once but twice writing on David Paterson and making puns about blindness in both titles.  Luckily we could always fall back to classy topics, like in the tenth edition of the Podcast when the idea of sprinkling AIDS on Bud Selig's salad somehow slipped out. 

Although Mr. Lung's interests are legion, he always makes sure to come back to sure-fire crowd pleasers, like the Cubs.  Or pictures of half-naked women.  However, this year Mr. Lung managed to take things to an entirely new level by combining both his hatred of the Cubs AND his love of gratuitous, scantily-clad women.

Ultimately, we kept doing what we have been doing since 2008.  Red State Blue State gets out there and addresses the issues and topics you want to know about, just like the following top five Jeffery Lung bylined entries of 2010:

2nd Honorable Mention:

RSBS Undercover: Jeff as a Yankees Fan, Day 1

Sure, we aren't the biggest fans of the Yankees over here at RSBS.  But you can't say we don't make an effort to be fair.  Mr. Lung took this sense of fair play to a previously unheard of level when he spent several days towards the end of the season as a Yankees' fan.  To get the full picture you'll have to read the other two parts but Day 1 sets the tone and sets Mr. Lung on a path that few others have dared to tread.

Honorable Mention:

All Teams Dissed Equally

That famous RSBS sense of fairness also flared up back in March when Jeff addressed the notion that we were biased for or against certain teams and players.  He then proceeded to take the piss out of all 30 teams showing once and for all that bias is only in the eye of the beholder.  Unless you're talking about the Cardinals in which case, "Guilty as charged."

2nd Runner Up:

RSBS Sits Down with Ken Griffey, Sr.

2010 was notable for RSBS in the we got the chance to sit down and talk to several Hall of Famers.  The series kicked off with Jeff's interview of Ken Griffey, Sr. in which Jeff and Ken (can I call you Ken?  Mr. Griffey?  Mr. Griffey, Sr.?) discussed a topic close to all three of us, prostate cancer.  Between the Griffey interview and Strasmas, the end of June turned out to be quite eventful.

1st Runner Up:

This Took 18 Years!?!?

Despite the irreverent tones, RSBS takes both its baseball and its politics seriously.  So when the Congress finally overturned the abomination of Don't Ask, Don't Tell just before Christmas, it was inevitable we'd have something to say.  Mr. Lung met the challenge head on and delivered an impassioned defense of all that makes America good.

And the Winner is...:

RSBS Sits Down with Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith

There are certain moments that mark us all.  Certain events rest forever in our memories and fundamentally alter our psyches.  I'm guessing Jeff's interview with Ozzie Smith was one such moments.  Put aside the fact that the guy is a Hall of Famer and one of the best shortstops to have played the game.  Forget that generations of Cardinals' fans look at his career as the second coming of Christ.  Jeff got to sit down with his childhood hero and talk to him one on one.  That, my friends, is something special.

So, there you have it.  The Year in Review, RSBS style.  And stay tuned as we roll into another year.  There will be baseball.  There will be politics.  And evidently, if Mr. Lung has anything to say about it, there will be gratuitous scantily clad women.

-A